Personality disparity in chronic regional and widespread pain
| Autor: | Po-Fei Chen, Mei-Chung Chang, For-Wey Lung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Personality Inventory media_common.quotation_subject Comorbidity Personality Disorders 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Personality Humans Affective Symptoms Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry media_common Chronic pain Middle Aged medicine.disease Mental illness Neuroticism Mental health Object Attachment Eysenck Personality Questionnaire 030227 psychiatry Psychotherapy Psychiatry and Mental health Case-Control Studies Pain catastrophizing Female Chronic Pain Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry research. 254 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7123 |
| Popis: | Chronic pain has high comorbidity with psychiatric disorders, therefore, better understanding of the relationship between chronic pain and mental illness is needed. This study aimed to investigate the pathway relationships among parental attachment, personality characteristics, alexithymic trait and mental health in patients with chronic widespread pain, those with chronic regional pain, and controls. Two hundred and thirty participants were recruited. The parental Bonding Inventory, Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI), 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), Chinese Health Questionnaire, and Short-Form 36 were filled out. The pathway relationships revealed that patients of mothers who were more protective were more neurotic, had more difficulty identifying feelings (DIF), worse mental health, and a higher association with chronic widespread pain. No differences were found between patients with chronic regional pain and the controls. The predisposing factors for chronic widespread pain, when compared with chronic regional pain, may be more closely related to psychiatric disorders. The pathways to chronic regional pain and chronic widespread pain differ, with neuroticism and the alexithymic DIF trait being the main factors defining chronic widespread pain. Therefore, besides therapies targeting pain symptoms, psychiatric consultation, medication and psychotherapy are also recommended for those with chronic widespread pain to alleviate their mental health conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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